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undsoc.org
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| | | | | The "historical turn" in the philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s gave most of its attention to the development of the physical sciences -- especially physics itself. (See Tom Nickles' essay "Historicist Theories of Scientific Rationality" in theStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophyfor a detailed account of this development in the philosophy of science;link.) Historian-philosophers... | |
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dustintran.com
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| | | | | One aspect I always enjoy about machine learning is that questions often go back to the basics. The field essentially goes into an existential crisis every dozen years-rethinking our tools and asking foundational questions such as "why neural networks" or "why generative models".1 This was a theme in my conversations during NIPS 2016 last week, where a frequent topic was on the advantages of a Bayesian perspective to machine learning. Not surprisingly, this appeared as a big discussion point during the p... | |
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www.statsblogs.com
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| | | | | [AI summary] The article argues against teaching null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) in statistics courses due to its ineffectiveness, danger, and lack of purpose, advocating instead for estimation and meta-analysis as more informative methods. | |
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errorstatistics.com
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| | | The following is the February stop of our leisurely cruise (meeting 6 from my 2020 Seminar at the LSE). There was a guest speaker, Professor David Hand. Slides and videos are below. Ship StatInfasSt may head back to port or continue for an additional stop or two. Leisurely Cruise February 25: Power, shpower, severity, positive... | ||